NEWS Diggers and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) have told the Lusaka High Court that Given Lubinda and Jean Kapata have failed to satisfy the conditions of defamation in their case. News Diggers and the EIA, through their lawyer Mutembo Nchito State Counsel, have also told the court that the defence would be arguing against themselves if they were to call any witnesses, given the status of the case. This is in a matter in which former lands and natural resources minister Kapata, former justice minister Given Lubinda and former president Edgar Lungu’s daughter, Tasila, sued News Diggers Media Limited and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in January 2020, demanding damages for libel. The trio had sued News Diggers Media...

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